All posts tagged ‘Zooka’

The Zooka slips onto the edge of the iPad, propping it up and serving as a grip.

While surfing Kickstarter for fun projects, I spend most of my time looking at the Board and Card Games section, but I also like to poke around to see what people are doing in Portland. That’s how I originally found out about the Zooka, a cylindrical Bluetooth speaker that fits on an iPad (or a thin laptop). The Kickstarter campaign wrapped up in March, and since then the folks at Carbon Audio have been hard at work refining the design and getting it ready for launch.

Carbon Audio is formed from a few members of the New design studio and others in Portland, Oregon. They set out to make great audio solutions for specific needs. First up: the Zooka was designed to raise the iPad’s audio capacity to better match its potential as an entertainment device. I stopped in to visit the Zooka team to get a closer look at it and see how it works.